OT: LDAP

Hi, Anyone had experience in LDAP servers? I'm trying to configure, saying ldap://locatname/cn=localhost,o=me,c=mycountry how should I go abt it ? Specifically in openldap and SecureWay Directory (IBM LDAP server) ?? This has to do with JNDI...we are trying to create a context or something for

Re: UDMA + chipstet ?

Eh...since u dun have the manual Open the casing and look at the motherboard Note down the manufacterer / brandname + model no. and check online ? The model no. often determines the chipset etc This works for PC ...never tried on a Sun or whatever workstation :P Well, Philippe Moutarlier w

Playing VCDs in RH 6.1 ?

Hi, I'm using this xreadvcd | mtvp - However, I found that the rate of display is less "smooth" than on RH 5.2 (sound is always behind video) Anyone had the same thing happening? Could it be the Xserver? RH5.2 didnt have support for Fire GL 1000 Pro so I used the extras from SuSE RH 6.1 's XFr

USB devices supported ?

Hi, anyone know if USB devices are supported in RH6.1 / 6.2 ? in the default kernel or do I have to recompile ? Basically, I'm looking into USB CDRW drives and hope to see it being supported on RH at least Anyone had experience with USB CDRW? Or scanners? I'm interested in Compo, Mitsumi a

Re: OT: video capture card

Aopen AX59Pro (Kind of confused, somewhere the document mentioned it being patched, later, it said the board was incompatiable) Well, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this... ->>may I know what motherboard u are using...? -> ->Pine Technologies dual slot 1 with dual P3 -500s -> ->>cos my motherboard is

OT: video capture card

Hi, OT topic...anyone has a video capture card (TV cards? watever?) that is working well with RH ? I 'm just hoping for the path with least headaches / curses :) Most cards are PCI (I think) thanks for any advice!! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject

Kernel + backup question

Hi, I'm going to make a custom kernel... any advice from anyone on what to backup ? (I think the howto only describes the procedures of those commands?) thanks for any advice on this!! Regards koshy -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

tuning ink usage by HP printers

Hi, I have a HP692C printer which uses too much ink while printing gs files Anyone has any idea on what gs commands I should use to tune the ink usage ? I've tried -rNxM but that's a scale down of the whole page ( I caught this from a part ion the printing howto) thanks for any help on this. k

OT : perl to do this?

Hi, Suppose I have a string of "BCCCDD" And I wanna use perl to convert this to A!4BC!3DD what should I do ? Is there a ready function (grep???) to achieve this ? Thanks for any help on this!! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

OT: Algo qn

Hi I have a 2D array of x*y integers assuming that x and y are multiples of 8 , how do I extract each 8x8 block ? and assume this 8x8 blocks to another 2D and store this in a datastructure I'm just stuck at the extracting each 8x8 block (storing to datastructure is ok) Any idea on how it should

OT: reading bytes in perl

Hi, How do I read a file byte by byte under perl? ? ? Anyone has a n idea on that ? Thanks for any info on this. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: ICQ for RedHat???

anyone tried this new release? How 's it different from the previous one ? Personally, I tried micq and licq micq is great for text-based terminals (and it doesnt need anything extra) licq needs qt (i dunno whats the version needed now , last I checked qt-1.42 ? was the one) anyway, qt's easily

[OT] graphics in Perl?

Hi, I'm on this assignment to do a baseline JPEG encoder/decoder..would like to try it in Perl first. Any1 knows a clue to what modules/widgets to use to display graphics in Perl? Tck/Tk was one of the tools I think (I only did CGI/shellscript under Pel before) Platform is not a problem since

6.1 - setting localhost.localdomain upon ppp?

Hi, I remembered in 5.2, upon ppp, localhost.localdomain would get changed to something (like qnts.com.sg) but now in 6.1, it is not so... which one should be the correct behaviour? If I wish to change localhost.localdomain upon ppp connection, how should I go abt it? thanks for any info! Hap

Re: Help! #%@#*!! compile problems

I didnt recall any problem with the qt-1.44 rpm (I didnt compile from source) under RH6.1 but I encountered the same problems in compiling licq (which needs qt-1.44 devel and blah) too. What I did then was to go into the sourcecodes and appended the path there(/qt-1.44) Monitors are ex$$ :) du

configuring HP 692C on RH6.1

Hi, I've been trying to configure my printer (a HP 692C ) to be used under parallel port 1 (IRQ7) lpr- is most updated version ~~ here's a list of what I did (not in order) device as (lpa) 1) pnp OS turned on 2) Parallel port as IRQ7, 378 SPP/ECP/EPP mode all tried 1) /dev/lp1, /dev/lp0 , /d

RH6.1 normal shutting down messages

Hi, I have a RH6.1 and whenever I issued a 'shutdown -h now' or halt I would get a list of modules getting terminated signals till some line with 'md' (??) thread recovery ? waking up ? After which I would get lots o/p to the screen, with tracecalls ? In short, it looks a lot like debugging to m